Film Treatment for: The Jimmie Angel Story
TITLE: The Jimmie Angel Story WRITER/CONTACT: Rob Fulfer - robfulfer@yahoo.com - 615-260-0916 LOGLINE: Despite its seraphic name, Angel Falls in Venezuela, the tallest waterfall in the world with a drop of over 3,200 feet, was "discovered" by and named for pilot, Jimmie Angel, an American aviator in 1933. Angel, his wife and two other passengers returned to the Venezuelan falls in 1937 and crash-landed on the remote table-top mountain (known as a tepui) that the falls descend from. A harrowing 11-day journey by foot descending the tepui and trekking through the jungle got them back to civilization safely. OPENING SCENE: A soaring reenactment of the historic first siting of what would become known as Angel Falls from the cockpit of Jimmie Angel's plane. ACT ONE: Broke aviator, Jimmie Angel, gets an intriguing offer from a wealthy gentleman in a bar in Panama to fly him to Venezuela in search of gold. There is little gold f...